My father is a ______. He makes delicious food for the workers in a factory. The workers love him very much. I also love him, ______ sometimes he can be “stupid”.

One day, I went ______ with him. When we got home, he wanted to know how much money we had spent in the shop. Suddenly, he told me something was ______. We got 50 yuan more than we should. “That’s great! You can buy me the ______ book,” I said. My father said nothing but asked me to go back to the shop together. I didn’t want to go back because ______ knew it. It was stupid to go back.

“It will not be ______! Being honest is very important,” my father shouted at me ______. I looked into his ______ and knew he was right.

When we gave back the money, the salesgirl thanked us a lot. On our way home, my father stopped me and ______, “Do you still want that cartoon book?” I looked at my “stupid” father and replied loudly, “Dad, you’re the greatest!”

Mingming is a student, who is 1.4 meters tall. This summer, he and his mother are going to travel by high-speed train. Here is some information they have got.

   Long ago in a small village, there was a place known as the House of 1,000 Mirrors.

A happy little dog decided to visit this place. When he arrived, he jumped up the stairs of the House. His ears were raised high and his tail was wagging as fast as it could. To his surprise, he saw 1,000 happy dogs in the mirrors. They wagged their tails as fast as his tail. He smiled a big smile. He saw 1,000 friendly smiles. As he left, he thought to himself, “This is a wonderful place. I will come back again.”

In the same village, there was another little dog. He was not happy all the time. He also decided to visit the House. He climbed the stairs slowly. He hung his head low when he looked into the mirrors. He saw 1,000 unfriendly dogs staring at him. He shouted at them. He was scared to see 1,000 little dogs shouting back at him. After he left, he thought to himself, “That is a terrible place. I will never go back there again.”

In fact, all the faces in the world are mirrors. When you smile at others, they’ll smile at you, too.

Yuan Longping, “the father of hybrid rice（杂交水稻）”, is one of the most important agricultural scientists. He had spent his whole life on hybrid rice.

Food was a big problem in China in the past. It was because China had 22% of the world’s population, but only 7% of its farmland. In the 1960s, China had serious hunger. Millions of people died because they had no food. Professor Yuan was very sad to see this. “How can I help people have enough food?” he thought. He decided to work on a new kind of hybrid rice that had a high output（产量）. He and his team studied the rice seeds（种子）day and night. At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This rice is strong. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmland and also in bad weather. It can also fight diseases. Its output is much higher than common kinds of rice.

Professor Yuan has already left us, but he will be remembered forever.

Now, AI（人工智能）is smart enough to check loneliness（孤独）in humans.

A new study shows how AI can know the degrees of loneliness from a person’s words. 80 people aged 66 to 94 took part in the study because they often felt lonely. They were asked 20 questions, such as “How often do you feel lonely?” and “How often do you get together with your friends?”

The interesting thing is that it uses dictionary-based methods.   For example, it can look for words to show fears. It also gives answers by testing their words. If people felt lonelier, their answers about loneliness were longer. It can know the degrees of loneliness in each topic. It also shows differences between men and women. If a man felt lonely, he used more words to show his fears. If a woman felt lonely, she expressed her lonely feelings directly.

A teacher once told her students to bring a bag and some potatoes to school. When they didn’t want to forgive（原谅）a person, they chose a potato and wrote the person’s name on it. Then they put it in the bag. Some of their bags became heavier and heavier.

They were told to carry their bags with them everywhere for one week. They would put them beside their beds at night, on the seats when sitting on buses, and next to their desks at school. Carrying the bags everywhere made the students very tired. They felt heavy stones in their hearts. And they had to pay attention to them all the time, so they didn’t forget them. The potatoes went bad and smelt terrible soon.

Forgiveness is a gift to other people. However, it is also a gift to us at the same time. If we keep our sadness and hatred（仇恨）in our hearts, we will have to carry them around all our lives. So we should learn to forgive.

Li Wen lives with his grandparents in the countryside. He is
41． 14-year-old boy. He
42． (work) hard and does well in school. It is hard to believe that he used to have many
43． (problem) in school. When he was a little boy, he hardly caused any trouble. But after his parents went to work in the city, they could not look after him
44． (careful). So Li Wen disliked study
45． missed classes. Then his parents decided
46． (send) him to a new school. However, he was a shy boy and couldn’t make friends quickly. One day, he wanted to leave the school. His parents were very worried
47． him and came back to talk with him. After a long talk, Li Wen realized that his parents loved
48． (he) deeply. He
49． (move) by his parents. Now, he is much
50． (happy) than before. It’s very important for parents to be there for their children.

1. 你喜欢阅读吗？It can open many doors and lead you into a road to success.

2. Everyone should have a good reading habit. This is because it is an important way to get information.

3. 阅读对我们来说很重要。How can you improve your reading? There is a good way. For example, when you learn how to ride a bike, you have to get on the bike as many times as possible. It is the same as reading. 4. If you want to improve your reading, try to read more books. If you go out, take a magazine, a book or something else to read. When you are reading, try to understand what message the writer is giving to you.

5. Good books are friends. They can bring us much happiness.

假定你是李华，2022年亚运会将在杭州举行，你想成为一名志愿者，请用英语给组委会写一封信，内容包括：

I am Li Hua, a middle school student. I’m glad to know that the Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou in 2022. I’m writing to apply to be a volunteer. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua